1997–98 Liga Indonesia Premier Division

Football season in Indonesia

Football league season

Liga Indonesia Premier Division
Season	1997–98
Matches played	234
Goals scored	533 (2.28 per match)
← 1996–97 1998–99 →

The 1997–98 Liga Indonesia Premier Division (known as the Liga Kansas for sponsorship reasons) was the fourth season of the Liga Indonesia Premier Division, the top division of Indonesian football. There were 31 teams involved in this season. Persebaya were the defending champions,^[1] and were leading when the season was abandoned by order of the military on 25 May 1998 due to political and economic turmoil in the country. At that point, 234 matches had been played out of the 317 scheduled.

Teams

Team changes

The number of teams dropped from 33 to 31 this season.^[2]

Relegated to First Division

Mataram Indocement
Persedikab
Persijatim

Promoted to Premier Division

Persikabo
Persikota
PSIM

Disbanded

ASGS
Bandung Raya

Name changes

Pelita Jaya changed their name to Pelita Jakarta.

Stadiums and locations

Persiraja

Medan

PSDS

Padang

PSBL

Tangerang

Bogor

Jakarta

Persikab

Persib

PSIM

PSIS

Arseto

Petrokimia Putra

Malang

Surabaya

Bogor teams

PSB

Jakarta teams

Pelita Jakarta

Persija

Malang teams

Arema

Persema

Medan teams

Medan Jaya

PSMS

Padang teams

PSP

Semen Padang

Surabaya teams

Mitra Surabaya

Persebaya

Tangerang teams

Persikota

Persita

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Locations of the teams in the 1997–98 Liga Indonesia Premier Division.

Blue: West Division;

Yellow: Central Division;

Red: East Division

West Division
Team	Location	Stadium
Arema	Malang	Gajayana
Medan Jaya	Medan	Teladan
Persebaya	Surabaya	Gelora 10 November
Persija	Jakarta (Central Jakarta)	Menteng
Persikab	Cimahi	Sangkuriang
Persikabo	Bogor	Pajajaran
Persiraja	Banda Aceh	Haji Dimurthala
Persita	Tangerang	Benteng
PSBL	Bandar Lampung	Pahoman
Semen Padang	Padang	Haji Agus Salim

Central Division
Team	Location	Stadium
Arseto	Solo	Sriwedari
Barito Putera	Banjarmasin	May 17th
Pelita Jakarta	Jakarta (South Jakarta)	Lebak Bulus
Persib	Bandung	Siliwangi
Persikota	Tangerang	Benteng
PSB	Bogor	Pajajaran
PSDS	Deli Serdang	Baharuddin Siregar
PSIM	Mataram	Mandala Krida
PSIS	Semarang	Jatidiri
PSMS	Medan	Teladan
PSP	Padang	Haji Agus Salim

East Division
Team	Location	Stadium
Gelora Dewata	Denpasar	Ngurah Rai
Mitra Surabaya	Surabaya	Gelora 10 November
Persema	Malang	Gajayana
Persiba	Balikpapan	Persiba
Persipura	Jayapura	Mandala
Persma	Manado	Klabat
Petrokimia Putra	Gresik	Petrokimia
PSM	Ujung Pandang	Andi Mattalata
Pupuk Kaltim	Bontang	Mulawarman
Putra Samarinda	Samarinda	Segiri Samarinda

First stage

West Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Persebaya	14	8	4	2	17	8	+9	28
2	Persija	15	8	3	4	26	15	+11	27
3	Persiraja	15	7	5	3	21	17	+4	26
4	Persita	15	7	3	5	22	15	+7	24
5	PSBL	15	5	6	4	21	23	−2	21
6	Arema	14	4	6	4	9	9	0	18
7	Persikabo	15	5	2	8	17	21	−4	17
8	Persikab	15	5	2	8	12	19	−7	17
9	Semen Padang	15	4	3	8	11	18	−7	15
10	Medan Jaya	15	3	2	10	13	24	−11	11

Source: RSSSF

Central Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSMS	16	9	4	3	28	15	+13	31
2	Pelita Jakarta	14	8	3	3	36	12	+24	27
3	Persikota	15	8	3	4	22	17	+5	27
4	Barito Putera	17	6	6	5	17	16	+1	24
5	Persib	15	6	4	5	14	8	+6	22
6	PSIS	16	4	8	4	17	24	−7	20
7	PSB	15	5	4	6	12	15	−3	19
8	PSDS	15	6	0	9	14	25	−11	18
9	PSP	16	3	7	6	14	22	−8	16
10	PSIM	15	3	5	7	10	24	−14	14
11	Arseto	14	3	2	9	10	16	−6	11

Source: RSSSF

East Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSM	15	9	3	3	33	8	+25	30
2	Persma	15	6	6	3	17	10	+7	24
3	Gelora Dewata	15	6	5	4	16	16	0	23
4	Putra Samarinda	15	6	4	5	11	15	−4	22
5	Persema	15	6	4	5	14	20	−6	22
6	Mitra Surabaya	15	5	4	6	17	15	+2	19
7	Persipura	16	4	6	6	24	23	+1	18
8	Pupuk Kaltim	15	5	3	7	17	23	−6	18
9	Petrokimia Putra	14	4	4	6	9	18	−9	16
10	Persiba	15	3	3	9	12	22	−10	12

Source: RSSSF

Top goalscorer

Kurniawan Dwi Yulianto (Pelita Jakarta) is the top goalscorer of Liga Indonesia 1997-1998 with 20 goals.^[3]

References

^ "Indonesia 1996/97". RSSSF. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
^ Sufiyanto, Tengku, ed. (2016-08-23). "Cerita Produk Rokok yang Pernah 'Merajai' Sepakbola Indonesia". INDOSPORT.com (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2021-02-09.
^ "LI 1997-1998". RSSSF. 1999. Retrieved 2011-05-05.